obviously a grift but honestly, understandable. Heritage laws are a huge pain in the ass, and if you don't know that part/all of your house is heritage listed, than you get absolutely ass rammed.
Heritage laws are stupid but if you're wealthy enough to plop $5 million freaking dollars on a house, you're wealthy enough to buy a house that isn't a heritage property.
These people just don't want to admit they're such dipshits that they didn't pay attention when they signed all the paperwork.
Granted I'm not a lawyer let alone a Canadian one, but I would assume delisting heritage status of a property is an even bigger pain in the ass and it won't happen just because the original owner was a meany-pants. Especially if the original owner was a meany-pants because it would set a case for any heritage property to get delisted that way.
Either they're idiots that got roped into buying something cheaper in an even more expensive neighborhood and thought they lucked out. (Like people that wave inspection for discounts)
Or they knew exactly what they were doing and were planning on fighting it from the start.
This is something that grinds my gears big time about the UK, tons of twats out there want to tell you how to renovate your own property but none of them will foot the bill so they just end up being dilapidated and then they wonder why we've got so many crap properties just lying around. They won't let people bulldoze them either even if they're not of historical significance that's one time I would draw the line for the sake of preserving culture but then the government should be dealing with that.
Plenty of properties out there worth fuck all that would cost a fortune to renovate because of the regulations. The biggest jokes are the properties in the middle of nowhere and yet people are acting like it's some kind of travesty to knock them down, fuck's sake. Meanwhile they're fine with letting just stop oil vandalise paintings because muh environment.
obviously a grift but honestly, understandable. Heritage laws are a huge pain in the ass, and if you don't know that part/all of your house is heritage listed, than you get absolutely ass rammed.
Heritage laws are stupid but if you're wealthy enough to plop $5 million freaking dollars on a house, you're wealthy enough to buy a house that isn't a heritage property.
These people just don't want to admit they're such dipshits that they didn't pay attention when they signed all the paperwork.
Granted I'm not a lawyer let alone a Canadian one, but I would assume delisting heritage status of a property is an even bigger pain in the ass and it won't happen just because the original owner was a meany-pants. Especially if the original owner was a meany-pants because it would set a case for any heritage property to get delisted that way.
Either they're idiots that got roped into buying something cheaper in an even more expensive neighborhood and thought they lucked out. (Like people that wave inspection for discounts)
Or they knew exactly what they were doing and were planning on fighting it from the start.
This is something that grinds my gears big time about the UK, tons of twats out there want to tell you how to renovate your own property but none of them will foot the bill so they just end up being dilapidated and then they wonder why we've got so many crap properties just lying around. They won't let people bulldoze them either even if they're not of historical significance that's one time I would draw the line for the sake of preserving culture but then the government should be dealing with that.
Plenty of properties out there worth fuck all that would cost a fortune to renovate because of the regulations. The biggest jokes are the properties in the middle of nowhere and yet people are acting like it's some kind of travesty to knock them down, fuck's sake. Meanwhile they're fine with letting just stop oil vandalise paintings because muh environment.